Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1887-12-21
DAKOTA.

Bismarck is anticipating an extensive boom |
next season.
Achina store is one of the new commodities
at Yankton.
The craze for ar,esian wells has struck
Rapid I.
Hermosa 10 short on MOTEL accommodations
aince the fire.
The penitentiary board met at Bismarck
Thursday last.
Rapid City citizens are investing heavily In
Iron Hill stock.
Charles Mix county affords plenty of game
for deer hunters.
The South Deadwood Hose company has
been Incorporated.
The first day of the lot sale at Whitewood
brought in s25, 900.
A national bank is to be added to the enter
prises Of Whitewood.
Bottineau farmers claim only about half
crop Of wheat last season.
A package of gold wss shipped from Rapid
City to London this week.
Prairie chickens are said to be very numer-
GUS in the vicinity Of Oliyet.
The first number of the Whitewood Sentinel
was published last Thursday.
Whitewood is soon to have telephone con-
nection with the outside world.
The Masonic lodge at Bismarck is increas-
ing in membership very rapidly.
Mink are becoming too familiar with the
chickens In Hutchinson county.
Over 100000 pounds of wheat were ship
ped from Alexandria last month.
A round house is being constructed at Wat
ertown by the railroad company.
The Illinois Central track has reached the
southeastern border Of the territory.
The peerless boomers of Cass county have
raised $40, 900 to enforce local option.
Watertown roller mills are putting in i'm
Irovements to the amount of Sc, COO.
Twenty-three thousand and ninety three
Indians reside on the Sioux reservation.
Attorney Remington, OF Valley City, has
been jailed for selling attached properly.
a bill has been introduced In congress to
open the Sioux reservation to settlement.
A Touring mill having capacity of thirty
two barrels per day is projected for Tilford
been filed in either of the recording offices.
Artesian water has been struck at depth
OF $50 feet on Schleun:ng's ranch, near Rapid
City.
Gov. Church has declared eff the quarsn.
time on csttle from Illir ols, Virginia, Vernon !.
and Canada.
The roofing slate recently discovered In the
Black Hills is pronounced by experts to be of
good quality.
The Volga Tribune will publish the names
Of all Its subscribers who are In arrears two
years or more.
The Deadwcod Pioneer has been purchased
by q syndicate OF fourteen of the leading citi-
zeus of that place.
Sioux Falls papers are advocating the mat
ter Of testing the granite for macadamszlng
purposes next year.
Sioux Falls has expended nearly $4,000 for
street improvements during the past seven
months.
It has been show1 that there is an increase
Of s,OO0,0 900 bushels this year in the Dakota
corn crop.
A petrifed snake about three inches in di.
ameter was found while blasting stone at
Deadwood.
President H. P. sprague, Of the Grand
Forks university, has just returned from a
lecture tour.
Flandreau citizens have raised bonus to
place.
The governor of the the territory in his last
report places the population at 100000
people.
In Deadwood there three men whose
height, united, is just thirteen feet three
inches.
Sioux Falls has expended nearly sl3, 600
for street improvements during the past seven
months.
Caes county runs behind its tax receipts
$4,000 per annum, but on account of return
Ing $50, 600 illegally collected railroad taxes
and losing $40 600 saloon license, there will
be deficit Of $685. 600 for the current year.
The Sioux Falls Argus-Leader. thinks the
city council should dedicate one hill in that
place to the use of coasters ond not deprive
the youths of ali their sport.
Legal proceedings have been common ced to
epj,in the collection Of the excess taxes on
property in Bridgewater, the valuation of
which the town raised on the books OF the as
SCISSOR.
A vein Of coal sixteen feet thick has been
found at Whitewood, twelve feet below the
surface, and seventy feet below another vein
more than three times as thick. The coal is
said to be as good as any in the;country.
Five men, aggregating a weight Of 1,s27
pounds, were weighed at Rapid City on Sun.
day.
Muscatine has just incorporated company
for the construction Of wagon bridge across
the river at that point.
The Muscatine d LILY Morning News, having
Republican ploclivitiea, made its first appear
anee Saturday morning.
Miss May Halliday, OF Keokuk, had her eye
severely burned while using an iron to curl
her hair Thursday morning.
Charles Cumming, q Dating bagrio keeper
at Savanna, has been sentenced to one year In
the penitentiary and fined SIS.
ID. Bonnahue, who has been on trial for
two weeks at Atlantic, was Monday morning
found guilty Of manslaughter.
James Casey was killed near Emmetsburg
last week BY being thrown from cutter and
corn shelter falling upon him.
Stormy Jordan, of oaumws, the most